Remembering John Garang: 20 Years On
John Garang De Mabior died in a helicopter crash on 30 July 2005.
Even when John Garang promoted the New Sudan Vision (NSV) over an independent South Sudan, he was not blind to the strong separatist sentiment and its rationale in the South given the history of oppression they encountered in a united Sudan. … Like Southern separatism, Garang’s unionist stance has always been conditional on Khartoum’s attitude and on external, global realities. For instance, in 2004, Garang argued,
“[why] should I remain in a country where I am called ‘abeed’ [slave]? No, I will not. But then let us take the bull by the horns and change the Sudan so that it belongs to all of us; so that it remains united.”
Accordingly, a united Sudan under favourable sociopolitical conditions has always been Garang’s first choice in his Five-Model governance structure. … Nevertheless, for Southerners including some SPLM/A officials, a united Sudan under new conditions as Garang put it was acceptable. However, an independent nation state has always been the Southern first choice followed by federalism.
Source:Kuir ë Garang, “Political Ideology and Organisational Espousal: A Political-Historical Analysis of Dr. John Garang De Mabior’s ‘New Sudan Vision’”, Modern Africa Politics History and Society, Vol. 7, Issue 2, December 2019.
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